"""
Copyright 2012 Wieser Dietmar, Margit Mutschlechner.

This file is part of Multimedia Social Networking Platform.

Multimedia Social Networking Platform is free software: 
you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

Multimedia Social Networking Platform is distributed
in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with Multimedia Social Networking Platform.  
If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

"""

import time

def formatTimeWithDay(t=None):
    """Converts a date with a given day into a String.
    
    Formats either the given date, or, if None, formats the current time in the following way:
    day month year hour:minutes:seconds
    
    Args:
        t: The time as floating point number to be formatted. It is default None.
    """
    if t == None:
        t = time.localtime()
    return time.strftime("%d %b %Y %H:%M:%S", t)

def formatTimeWithoutDay(t=None):
    """Converts a date without a day into a String.
    
    Formats either the given date, or, if None, formats the current time in the following way:
    hour:minutes:seconds
    
    Args:
        t: The time as floating point number to be formatted. It is default None.
    """
    if t == None:
        t = time.localtime()
    return time.strftime("%H:%M:%S", t)

def formatTimeAsFloat(t=None):
    """Converts a date into a float.
    
    Formats either the given date, or, if None, formats the current time into a float.
    
    Args:
        t: The time as floating point number to be formatted. It is default None.
    """
    if t == None:
        t = time.time()
    return float("%f" % t)
